Sept 12: Reading Affinity Maps by

mprikhod — 2024-09-10 16:50:33 UTC

"Complexity needs to be reduced on a permanent basis as the human mind needs to box and categorise experiences, ideas, others... to “survive”." - (Dervin, p. 5)

mprikhod — 2024-09-10 17:06:11 UTC

"What is interesting instead is to see how stereotypes are created and co-constructed and what they tell us about the people who resort to them (Abdallah-Pretceille 2006)." (Dervin).

Anastasija - Canagarajah Quote 1

2024-09-12 15:04:34 UTC

"...crossing model... teachers attempt to build bridges to help multilingual students move from their local literacy practices and cultural frames toward academic/English discourses (and vice versa)... in this approach there is a clear-cut difference between the academic and vernacular literacies. Students have to keep their discourses from home at home and enter into academic discourses with a new sense of self and reality. Students are asked to adopt different roles and identities as they move between the home and school" -Canagarajah

Dervin

2024-09-12 15:04:56 UTC

Dervin talks about how globalization, by multiplying meanings, makes people and groups more uncertain about who they are. How has globalization made identity more complicated?

2024-09-12 15:05:13 UTC

"'Identity is the 'loudest talk in town' the burning issue on everybody's mind and tongue'" (Dervin). What makes up our identity?

Anastasija - Canagarajah Quote 2

2024-09-12 15:05:59 UTC

"...negotiation model requires that students wrestle with the divergent discourses they face in writing to creatively work out alternate discourses and literacies that represent better their values and interests. In some cases this means appropriating the academic discourse and conventions in terms of the students' own backgrounds" -Canagarajah

2024-09-12 15:06:17 UTC

"But culture cannot be but plural, changing, adaptable, constructed… (Clifford & Marcus 1986). A culture that doesn’t change and exchange with other cultures is a dead culture." Dervin p. 2-3

cshaffe6 — 2024-09-12 15:06:40 UTC

From Canagarajah, I liked the idea of "teaching students not to treat rules of communication as innocent or indisputable but to negotiate for the independent expression"

Dervin

2024-09-12 15:07:30 UTC

How can one overcome stereotypes? How can we as classmates with others in Brazil stray away from our own stereotypes?

mprikhod — 2024-09-12 15:07:38 UTC

Multilingual or even multicultural spearkers may be seen as being shaped by their respective cultures and languages, requiring inordinate effort to reorientate to other discourses. - Canagarajah

haysb9 — 2024-09-12 15:07:50 UTC

"Treating languages as embodying partisan values, these scholars hold that English will condition our thinking and limit the meanings we may want to express in our writing. They would therefore think of English as muting any oppositional perspectives one may bring to knowledge creation in academic writing--and, in fact, as leading to the reproduction of Eurocentric values and thinking in the local communities." (Canagarajah)

Dervin 2

2024-09-12 15:08:40 UTC

"identity is the 'loudest talk in town', the burning issue on everybody's mind and tomgue". What shapes our identity?

Anastasija - Dervin Quote 1

2024-09-12 15:08:40 UTC

"...the meaning of culture is related to power relationships; it is also composed of conflicting representations... culture is “both over and underrated” and its definition depends on the researcher’ vantage point... culture is too often used as an agent in explaining intercultural encounters, while it doesn’t have any autonomous nor material existence... it is the acting subject only who does, thinks, behaves… (ibid.: 84). For T.H. Eriksen, culture is a “cosy blanket” (2001: 141), which can be misused and abused" -Dervin

mprikhod — 2024-09-12 15:09:16 UTC

Interseting here to explore how stereotypes are co-constructed. What the boundaries? Who is reponsible?

Canagarajah

2024-09-12 15:09:38 UTC

“Writing is not a transmission of ideas, nor are constructs like writer and text autonomous. The writer's "intentions" and "thoughts" are considerably influenced by the expectations, norms, and values ofthe audience (or community). The text itself then becomes a mediated construct-one that is shaped by the struggle/collaboration/interplay between the writer, reader, and the community for thought.”
Canagarajah, A. Suresh.

Anastasija - Dervin Quote 2

2024-09-12 15:10:18 UTC

"Yet when identity is reduced in such ways, or the consequences can be quite strong: “conflicts and barbarities”... but also “Stereotyping, humiliating, dehumanizing, stigmatizing identities… ”... When expressing an identity, there is always an issue of power at hand..." -Dervin

cshaffe6 — 2024-09-12 15:10:47 UTC

From Dervin, I thought the study of tourism vs. natives of the area was interesting. They both make false narratives of each other that keep hurting the relationship. This causes them to not make discourse with each other and causes them not to evolve there understanding.

2024-09-12 15:11:15 UTC

"It is in perceiving writing as a situated, mediated, dynamic social activity that the work of critical practice begins."
Canagarajah p. 6

mprikhod — 2024-09-12 15:27:34 UTC

when identity is stigmatized - whose responsibility?

Words are powerful

Rhetorical awareness about who is talking, who limits of their power there are.

what identity am I projecting?